In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into
China's capital city of Nanjing and launched six weeks of carnage
that would become known as the Rape of Nanjing. In addition to the
deaths of Chinese POWs and civilians, tens of thousands of women
were raped, tortured, and killed by Japanese soldiers. In this
traumatic environment, both native and foreign-born inhabitants of
Nanjing struggled to carry on with their lives.
This volume collects the diaries and correspondence of Minnie
Vautrin, a farmgirl from Illinois who had dedicated herself to the
education of Chinese women at Ginling College in Nanjing. Faced
with the impending Japanese attack, she turned the school into a
sanctuary for ten thousand women and girls. Vautrin's firsthand
accounts of daily life in Nanjing and the intensifying threat of
Japanese invasion reveal the courage of the occupants under
siege--Chinese nationals as well as Western missionaries, teachers,
surgeons and business people--and the personal costs of violence in
wartime.
Thanks to Vautrin's painstaking effort in keeping a day-to-day
account, present-day readers are able to examine this episode of
history at close range through her eyes. With detailed maps,
photographs, and carefully researched in-depth annotations, "Terror
in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38"
presents a comprehensive and detailed daily account of the events
and of life during the horror-stricken days within the city walls
and in particular on the Ginling campus. Through chronologically
arranged diaries, letters, reports, documents, and telegrams,
Vautrin bears witness to those terrible events and to the magnitude
of trauma that the NanjingMassacre exacted on the populace.
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